Tomato Processing By-Products: Sustainable Applications

ISBN-13: 9780128228661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 438 str.

Mejdi Jeguirim; Antonis A. Zorpas

Spis treści

1. Identification, Quantification and Characterization of Tomato processing by-products
2. Tomato waste for animal feeding
3. Ingredients for food products
4. Extraction and formulation of valuable components from Tomato processing by products
5. Biomaterials
6. Biochar production from the pyrolysis of Tomato processing residue
7. Vermicomposting of Tomato processing by-products
8. Environmental applications of tomato processing by-products
9. Energy applications of tomato processing by-products
10. The biorefinery concept for the industrial valorization of tomato processing by-products

O autorze

Dr. Mejdi Jeguirim is a Professor at the University of Haute Alsace, France, in the field of energy, process engineering, and kinetics modelling. He has co-authored more than 150 referred international journal papers in his research field and is a member of the editorial boards for the international journals Energy, Energies, Energy for Sustainable Development, Biofuels, and the International Journal of Green Energy. He is involved as a scientific expert for over 50 international scientific journals, as well as for several national and international research programs. Prof. Jeguirim received the French National Research Excellence Award for researchers with high level scientific activity for 2009-2012, 2013-2016, and 2017-2020. Recently, he entered the World's Top 2% Scientists ranking established by Stanford University.

Dr Antonis Zorpas is a Chemical Engineer with a PhD in Environmental Management and Engineering. He is actively engaged with several Universities, Research Institutes in Europe. He is Professor at Open University of Cyprus (Faculty of Pure and Applied Science and he is the Director of the Lab of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Sustainability). He has more than 500 publications (including editor in scientific books, contribution on books, papers in scientific journals and international conferences) In addition, his acting as Editor / Associate Editor on behalf of several Scientific Journals (which belongs to SAGE, Elsevier, Springer, MDPI etc). He has recognized among the worlds to 2% in the list of scholars in his field in the study "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators” published by a research team from the Stanford University (USA) which include the list of the most influential researchers in the world reflects the excellence of the University's academics and researchers and the quality of their scientific work. His research background is in the area of Strategic Panning Development in the Framework of Waste Management, Circular Economy and Bioeconomy, Waste Valorization, Waste to energy, End of Waste Criteria, zero waste approach, Food waste, Life Cycle Assessment, metaverse and gamified tools.